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2021 Athens County, OH Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Athens County, OH went without power for an average of 9.7 hours, a total of 435K customer-hours (Ohio average 4.2 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 88 Ohio counties and 795th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with OH, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Ohio customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Athens County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 22, 2021 19:15 | January 23, 2021 22:45 | 1d 3h | 17,613 | 191K |
| 2 | December 11, 2021 12:15 | December 13, 2021 06:30 | 1d 18h | 4,995 | 36K |
| 3 | March 13, 2021 05:45 | March 13, 2021 08:45 | 3h | 4,351 | 3,270 |
| 4 | December 6, 2021 10:30 | December 7, 2021 11:15 | 1d | 3,161 | 18K |
| 5 | February 28, 2021 19:45 | March 1, 2021 06:00 | 10h 15m | 2,597 | 3,612 |
| 6 | July 20, 2021 11:30 | July 20, 2021 20:00 | 8h 30m | 2,513 | 2,701 |
| 7 | September 27, 2021 13:00 | September 27, 2021 18:30 | 5h 30m | 2,332 | 5,839 |
| 8 | June 11, 2021 12:30 | June 11, 2021 15:15 | 2h 45m | 1,817 | 4,086 |
| 9 | June 15, 2021 11:30 | June 16, 2021 00:30 | 13h | 1,801 | 5,541 |
| 10 | June 9, 2021 00:00 | June 9, 2021 04:30 | 4h 30m | 1,797 | 4,007 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 94 reached 100+ customers, 31 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Athens County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio Power Co | 2021 | 3.9 hrs | 1.36 | 2.9 hrs | 1.26 |
| Buckeye Rural Elec Coop, Inc | 2021 | 100.1 hrs | 3.90 | 9.1 hrs | 2.26 |
| Washington Electric Coop - (OH) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Village of Glouster - (OH) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 93% of Ohio's customers in 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 44,829 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Athens County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Athens County, OH annual power outage report, 2021, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2021/ohio/athens-county